Historique
The UNDP Programme is to support the Government of Myanmar in its objective to promote sustainable development, achieve democratic transformation, and poverty reduction in the country. The programme aims to promote poverty reduction and sustainable development by strengthening institutional capacity of national and local government and non-state actors.
UNDP Myanmar implementing its programme with strategic priorities of (1) Local governance development for poverty reduction, (2) disaster risk reduction and climate change, and (3) policy support for democratic governance.
UNDP organize various events such as consultations, workshops with participation of national counterparts, donors and international organizations. In view of accommodating, the interpretation and translation needs and of ensuring effective and efficiently communication in both languages (English and Myanmar). UNDP Myanmar is planning to make Long term agreement with qualify interpreter/translator for providing timely and qualitive interpretation/translation services.
UNDP requires services of individual contractor(s) specializing in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, translation services from English to Myanmar and/or vice versa, as well as proofreading/editing documents, reports.
Devoirs et responsabilités
Qualified consultant(s) may apply for all or any of the following services:
1. Simultaneous or consecutive interpretation services from Myanmar to English or vice versa during meeting, workshops, conferences and trainings.
2. Translation services including translation of documents, reports, presentations, manuals, documents, studies and reports from Myanmar to English or vice versa.
Scope of Work/Responsibilities
1. Interpretation Services
Provide simultaneous/consecutive interpretation during steering committee meeting, technical working group meeting, workshops and trainings, conference, meeting between the international advisors/experts and national consultants as well as national counterparts
Provide interpretation during official missions including field trips to project sites
2. Translation Services
Translation from Myanmar to English and vice versa of various reports, documents, presentations, manuals; legislation, advocacy and information materials, documents of meeting of working groups, correspondence to the government, national counterparts and international partners
Produce a 100% accurate translation of English test to Myanmar or vice versa
Make necessary corrections for changes required by the organization and re-submitted correct text within agreed timeframe.
3. Proofreading
Edit, check and correct for English to Myanmar translation work and vice versa
Quality check and proofreading of translation ensuring no typos, errors in the final text
Ensuring timely delivery of translated and edited materials
Assure translation are correct and consistent in terms of completion, terminology usage, correct meaning, correct Myanmar Grammar and Spelling
4. Note Taking
Take notes at meetings/conferences and provide meeting minutes/report in English
Contract Agreements
A Long-Term agreement (LTA) shall be signed between UNDP and the individual contractor.
For every on-call engagement, a work Order (raised by the requesting unit) or individual contract/PO (prepared by the procurement unit) shall be issued referring to the Long-Term Agreement attaching clear TOR/Milestones for each engagement for specific pieces of interpretation/translation work and specific payment schedule for each deliverable.
The requesting unit official shall directly supervise the individual contractor, and to whom he/she shall be directly responsible to, reporting to, seeking approval/acceptance of output from (unit head, output head or delegate unit/output staff).
The individual contractor shall have fully functional computer and email equipment of his/her own to perform the work/ assignment of UNDP.
The individual contractor shall accept assignments outside Yangon. On these occasions, the contractor shall be provided with travel to and from the UNDP office as per United Nations’ normal travel arrangements. Mutually agreed allowances shall be paid for each night the individual contractor is required to stay away from his/ her residence. Accommodation in the location outside of the contractor’s residence shall be sourced by the individual contractor and all costs be borne by the individual contractor. No travel may be undertaken by the individual contractor without a prior authorization from UNDP.
Depending on the market situation, if required, the individual contractor’s fees shall be reviewed for adjustments after one year for UNDP’s consideration.
Duration of Contract
The agreement will be 2 years with possible extension of another (1) year.
Qualifications and Experience
University Bachelor Degree in English language and other relevant field (Master Degree in relevant field will have an advantage)
Relevant experience with a proven record in providing interpretation/translation services from English to Myanmar and/or vice versa (letter of recommendations are to be attached in the proposal submission)
Minimum two (2) years of progressively responsible interpretation work from English to Myanmar and vice versa with the government and/or international organizations such as the UN, INGOs and civil society
Minimum two (2) years of experience in translation of official government/UN documents
Knowledge in the following areas of study for specialized translation work:
- Economics
- Governance
- Law
- Public Administration/Public Sector Management
- Social Cohesion and Peace Building
- Environment Biodiversity and Climate Change
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Gender
- Human Rights
- Health
Ability to work under pressure and to meet strict deadlines
Ability to produce a high volume of quality content
Demonstrated willingness to work as part of a team in multicultural environment
Hands-on experience with MS office including MS word, MS excel and MS PowerPoint
Language Requirement
The interpreter/translator shall be fluent in written and spoken English and Myanmar.
Scope of Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments
Fee proposal must be expressed as per the Financial Proposal – Breakdown of cost template attached.
please visit to http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=39327 to get financial proposal form and P-11
Recommended Presentation of officer
Offers shall include the following documents:
a. Duty accomplished Letter of Confirmation of interest and Availability using the template provide by UNDP
b. Personnel CV or P11, indicating all past experiences from similar projects; as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the candidate and at least three (3) professional references/letter of recommendations;
c. brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment
Financial Proposal shall be as per the attached Pricelist template
If an offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under a Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the officer must indicate at this point, and ensure that all such cost are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP
Evaluation Criteria
The interpreter/translator will be evaluated base of the cumulative analysis methodology. The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as
Responsive compliant acceptable
Having receive the highest score out of the below set of weighted technical and financial criteria.
*Technical Wight 70% and *Financial Criteria weight: 30%
- Relevance of education degree (Bachelor degree 10 pts, Master’s degree and above 15 pts) - 15 points;
- 2 years’ experience with a proven record in providing interpretation/ translation services from English to Myanmar and/or vice versa - 15 points;
- Specialized interpretation/ translation work, skills and experiences (two areas 25 pts, 5tps shall be added for each additional area up to 15 pts)Able to use correct terminologies during the interpretation/translation work and especially, use consistent terminologies for translation work for proposed specialization - 40 points;
- Demonstrated work experience with international organization including the UN, UNDP and INGOS - 10 points;
- Computer Skills (MS office Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - 10 points;
- Computer Typing skills (Myanmar and English), (especially Unicode, Zawgyi characters for Myanmar typing) - 10 points.
Compétences
Corporate Competencies:
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards and acts in accordance with the Standards of Conduct for international civil servants;
- Advocates and promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Treats all people fairly without favouritism.
Functional Competencies:
- Good knowledge of the natural resource management particularly lake and watershed management, the concept of sustainability and sustainable development in the region and developing countries;
- Ability to quickly grasp and synthesize inputs from a range of disciplines related to sustainable financial mechanism for environmental conservation;
- Ability to advocate and provide technical advice on the relevant sector/theme;
- Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision;
- Promotes a knowledge sharing and learning culture in the office;
- Sensitivity to and responsiveness to all partners, respectful and helpful relations with all UN/UNDP staff;
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
- Remains calm, in control and good humoured even under pressure;
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage.
Qualifications et expériences requises
Education
University Bachelor Degree in English language and other relevant field (Master Degree in relevant field will have an advantage)
Experience
Relevant experience with a proven record in providing interpretation/translation services from English to Myanmar and/or vice versa (letter of recommendations are to be attached in the proposal submission)
Minimum two (2) years of progressively responsible interpretation work from English to Myanmar and vice versa with the government and/or international organizations such as the UN, INGOs and civil society
Minimum two (2) years of experience in translation of official government/UN documents
Knowledge in one of the following areas of study for specialized translation work:
- Economics
- Governance
- Law
- Public Administration/Public Sector Management
- Social Cohesion and Peace Building
- Environment
- Natural Resource Management
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience
- Climate Change
- Conservation and Biodiversity
- Gender
- Human Rights
- Health
- Green growth
- Energy
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet strict deadlines
Language Requirement
The interpreter/translator shall be fluent in written and spoken English and Myanmar. (and Ethnic language if there is any)
Ability to produce a high volume of quality content
Demonstrated willingness to work as part of a team in multicultural environment
Hands-on experience with MS office including MS word, MS excel and MS PowerPoint
Computer Typing skills for both Myanmar and English (mandatory for translators)